Woodson, Jacqueline.

Brown girl dreaming Jacqueline Woodson - 2016 - 349 p. 21 cm

Family tree -- Part I: I am born -- Part II: The stories of South Carolina run like rivers -- Part III: Followed the sky's mirrored constellation to freedom -- Part IV: Deep in my heart, I do believe -- Part V. Ready to change the world -- Author's note -- Thankfuls -- Family photos -- The story isn't over : seven beautiful new poems

Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement

Ages 10 and up

National Book Award Winner Newbery Honor Book Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner, 2015

0147515823 9780147515827 1484496744

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